Evolutionary psychology
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evolutionary-psychology-171-11070853
title:
Evolutionary psychology
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Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve. In this framework, psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Branch of psychology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
date created:
2001-08-31T22:06:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T12:47:32Z
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